{"id":2301,"date":"2022-12-19T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwx.bif.mybluehost.me\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2022-12-19T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:38:30","slug":"european-rapid-blitz-chess-champions-2022-crowned-in-katowice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"European Rapid &#038; Blitz Chess Champions 2022 crowned in Katowice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The<strong>&nbsp;2022 European Open and Women\u2019s Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships&nbsp;<\/strong>took place from 16-18 December in Katowice, Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event gathered 1000 players coming from more than 40 European federations, with more than 800 participants in Blitz, and more than 900 participants in Rapid championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320641893_717672586226256_8847141248842744195_n-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24168\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first event on the schedule was the 2022 European Blitz Chess Championship, which was played on Friday, December 16th. After 11 double rounds (22 rounds in total), three players tied for the top with a score of 17.5 points:&nbsp;<strong>GM David Navara<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(CZE)<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>GM Maciej Klekowski (POL)<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>GM Shant Sargsyan (ARM)<\/strong>. Tiebreaks criteria determined David Navara as the new European Blitz Champion, Maciej Klekowski won the silver medal and Shant Sargsyan clinched bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chess_2022_d3_m_walusza_0413-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24177\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Championship was merged with the Open tournament and the best-ranked female players were crowned as the Winners.&nbsp;<strong>GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE)<\/strong>&nbsp;claimed the title of European Blitz Women\u2019s Chess Champion for 2022 with a score of 15.5 points.&nbsp;<strong>IM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (POL)&nbsp;<\/strong>trailed by half a point and won silver with 15 points and&nbsp;<strong>GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL)<\/strong>&nbsp;came third with 14 points and best tiebreaks in a group of five players who tied for bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chessmanager.com\/en\/tournaments\/4791684865982464\/results\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Final rankings \u2013 Blitz event<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/chess_2022_d3_m_walusza_0400-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24178\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>European Rapid Chess Championship was played on 17-18 December. It was a tense fight until the very last minute of the event as seven players had a joint lead before the start of the last round.&nbsp;<strong>GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP)<\/strong>&nbsp;was the only one from the group who won the last-round game, and thus emerged as the sole Winner of the Rapid tournament with 9.5 points. As many as 11 players tied for silver with 9 points, each, but tiebreaks criteria favored&nbsp;<strong>GM David Navara (CZE)<\/strong>&nbsp;who came second and&nbsp;<strong>GM Daniel Fridman (GER)&nbsp;<\/strong>won bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320737523_8429562530448690_6695642123597122830_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24170\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (POL)&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (FIDE)&nbsp;<\/strong>were the best-ranked female players with 8.5 points, each. However, tiebreak criteria favored Aleksandra Maltsevskaya who clinched gold and Alexandra Kosteniuk came second. Five players tied for third place with a score of 8 points (each), but tiebreaks determined&nbsp;<strong>IM Jolanta Zawadzka (POL)&nbsp;<\/strong>as the bronze medalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chessmanager.com\/en\/tournaments\/6044201113354240\/results\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Final rankings \u2013 Rapid event<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320637595_5645672878819900_6613195670497948662_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The closing ceremony of the event took place yesterday evening at \u201cSpodek\u201d Sport and Entertainment Centre which was the playing venue of the Championships. The Ceremony was attended by ECU Deputy President Mrs. Dana Reizniece-Ozola, ECU Vice President Mr. Gunnar Bjornsson, FIDE Secretary General Lukasz Turlej, and other distinguished guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc27 \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1d&amp;\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc33 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chess<\/a> \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc29 \ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfce\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd0 &#8211; Video recap!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ERBCC2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ERBCC2022<\/a> concluded yesterday in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Katowice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Katowice<\/a>. The event gathered 1000 players coming from more than 40 European federations! Congratulations to the Winners and all participants! \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQQc43kDoF\">pic.twitter.com\/FQQc43kDoF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; European Chess Union (@ECUonline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECUonline\/status\/1604774080762318848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katowice2022.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Official website of the event<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos from the Official website and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EuropeanChessBlitzAndRapid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook page of the event<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europechess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320035170_637602968159736_4990302689703983734_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24176\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arbiters team of the European Rapid &amp; Blitz Chess Championship 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;2022 European Open and Women\u2019s Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships&nbsp;took place from 16-18 December in Katowice, Poland. The event gathered 1000 players coming from more than 40 European federations, with more than 800 participants in Blitz, and more than 900 participants in Rapid championship. The first event on the schedule was the 2022 European Blitz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,318,96],"tags":[322,58,323,324,268,49,269,270,30,325,326,327,328],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-ecu","category-finished","tag-aleksandra-maltsevskaya","tag-alexandra-kosteniuk","tag-antoaneta-stefanova","tag-daniel-fridman","tag-david-navara","tag-european-chess-union","tag-european-rapid-and-blitz-chess-championship","tag-european-rapid-and-blitz-chess-championship-2022","tag-featured","tag-jaime-santos-latasa","tag-jolanta-zawadzka","tag-maciej-klekowski","tag-shant-sargsyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}